How to Play Roulette:
This page describes several attempts to develop a perfect roulette system and describes advantages and disadvantages of each one of them. If you want to learn roulette rules or roulette history and general facts regarding the game, visit the corresponding pages at this site.
Roulette system is the Philosopher%u2019s Stone of gambling. The theme is surrounded by hundreds of legends, but no body can prove that a perfect roulette system exists. In fact, many insist on the opposite. As far as the player can not affect the outcome of the game and each new result does not depend on the previous one, roulette considered an unbeatable game.
Blackjack, for example, leaves space for strategies and mathematical analysis, because the outcome depends on the decision of the player, and the game is played with the same deck (or several decks), so each new outcome depends on the previous ones, as the cards that already were dealt can not be dealt again.
Roulette outcomes are completely random and no mathematical theory in the world can predict them. However, many people, have spent a lot of time and effort to discover a roulette system that will work.
In the early years of the quest for a perfect roulette system, some players did profit from roulette. Probably the only successful roulette system in history was not based on mathematical analysis, but on the mechanical behavior of the roulette wheel. This roulette system was based on the fact that no mechanical device can be perfectly balanced, and taking into the account physical imperfections, one can calculate the numbers that are more likely to hit in the long run. However, short after the system was invented, casinos took counter-measures. Nowadays, casinos re-balance their roulette wheels every once in a while, and making a serious analysis that requires many games, has become impossible.
Another famous theory is Martingale roulette system. Martingale was a mathematician and did not develop his system to be used in casinos, but as a mathematical theory. As many theories, Martingale system can be used on practice, but is absolutely effective only with perfect conditions, which, unfortunately, do not exist in this world.
The main principle of Martingale roulette system is doubling the bet each time you lose. Theoretically, in a sequence of numbers, where each next member doubles the previous one, the sum of any number of sequential members is smaller than the next member of the sequence. In other words, if you follow Martingale roulette system, no matter how many bets you lose, if you win the next one, you compensate everything you have lost and win a sum equal to your initial bet.
The only disadvantage of Martingale roulette system is that after a several doublings, the sum you need to bet becomes significantly large. First of all, nobody in the world has an infinite budget, and can reach the moment when he will not have enough money to continue with Martingale roulette system and will stay with all his money in the game that has same negative expectations as it had before Martingale roulette system was applied. Besides, casinos made this effect even harder by applying low and high betting limits. Now, the player does not have to wait until he runs out of money. He only needs to reach the maximum table limit to break the Martingale roulette system.
For example, if the minimum table limit is 1 dollar and the maximum is 20 dollars, the player can start with 1 dollar bet. If he loses it, he bets 2 dollars. If he loses again, he bets 4 dollars, then 8 dollar, then 16 dollars and reaches the maximum limit. If the last 16 dollar bet is won, the player recovers all bets he has lost and wins 1 dollar (loss: 1+2+4+8 = 15 dollars , winning:16 dollars), but if he loses this bet too, he can not double, and he bets the maximum and wins, he does not recover the loss. And if he loses the 20 dollar bet too, he already has 51 dollar loss and no way to recover it using Martingale roulette system. In other words, Martingale roulette systems allows you to win very small sums quite often, but if you lose once, you lose more than you have won. Martingale roulette system is absolutely disadvantageous in the long run.
